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Stutschewsky's 13 Jewish Folk Tunes

New Publication

Stutschewsky's 13 Jewish Folk Tunes

Recording of Joachim-Yehoyachin Stutschewsky’s forgotten work

Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited

Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel Audio Examples

Esther Warkov's Dissertation Audio Examples

משה קוסביצקי

Moshe Koussevitsky

Cantor 1899-1966

The Carpentras Synagogue

The Music on Comtat-Venaissin

Revised and annotated translation from the French by Edwin Seroussi

Jewish music mapped

The Jewish Music Research Centre is pleased to launch Jewish Music Mapped (JMM), a unique digital tool for experiencing Jewish music across time and places.

Jewish music mapped

The Jewish Music Research Centre is pleased to launch Jewish Music Mapped (JMM), a unique digital tool for experiencing Jewish music across time and places.

Jewish music mapped

The Jewish Music Research Centre is pleased to launch Jewish Music Mapped (JMM), a unique digital tool for experiencing Jewish music across time and places.

Jewish music mapped

The Jewish Music Research Centre is pleased to launch Jewish Music Mapped (JMM), a unique digital tool for experiencing Jewish music across time and places.

Jewish music mapped

The Jewish Music Research Centre is pleased to launch Jewish Music Mapped (JMM), a unique digital tool for experiencing Jewish music across time and places.

Jewish music mapped

The Jewish Music Research Centre is pleased to launch Jewish Music Mapped (JMM), a unique digital tool for experiencing Jewish music across time and places.

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projects-section

Projects

projects

Samy’s Boys in Concert in the early 1950s (Courtesy of Yolande Amzallag, Foundation Samy Elmaghribi)

Music, Muslims and Jews

With the rise of Islam and the expanding Arab conquests throughout the Middle East, North Africa and…

Ezra Aharon Orchestra 1937

Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited

In 1979 Esther Warkov, a young American PhD student in ethnomusicology, came to Israel to…

Biographies section

Biographies section

Biographies

Biographies

Zikmund (Siegmund) Schul

Zikmund (Siegmund) Schul

Jewish German composer, active musically in Theresienstadt

1916-1944

Zecharia Plavin

Zecharia Plavin

Israeli musician, composer, concert pianist, pedagogue, culture and society researcher

1956-

Zawel (Zevulun) Kwartin

Zawel (Zevulun) Kwartin

Cantor & composer

1874-1953

Zalmen Mlotek

Zalmen Mlotek

American conductor, pianist, composer & the Artistic Director of the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene

1951-

Playlists section

Playlists section

Playlists

Playlists

James Levy, 1983

Shabbat and Year Cycle Songs from the Collection of James Levy

Selection from "Shira ve-simha" (1976), James Levy Gibraltar Sephardic Collection

Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel, Revisited

Jewish Professional Musicians in Iraq and Israel Audio Examples

Esther Warkov's Dissertation Audio Examples (CDs 1-5)

Concepts section

Concepts section

Concepts

concepts

Kabalos-Shabos (LKT)

This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT compiles a wide array of source materials that shed l…

Hopkele (LKT)

This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT compiles a wide array of source materials that shed l…

Gezungnungs-marsh (LKT)

This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT compiles a wide array of source materials that shed l…

Rikud (LKT)

This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT compiles a wide array of source materials that shed l…

Redele (LKT)

This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT compiles a wide array of source materials that shed l…

Gazlen-tants (LKT)

This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT compiles a wide array of source materials that shed l…

Publications section

Publications section

Publications

Publications

Music Subjects in the Zohar: Texts and Indices

Music Subjects in the Zohar: Texts and Indices

A compilation of passages from the Book of Splendor, the main…

The liturgical music of the Portuguese Jews

The Spanish-Portuguese Jewish Liturgy

Few Jewish liturgical music traditions have been as consistently…

Judeo-Caribbean Currents: Music of the Mikvé Israel-Emanuel Synagogue in Curaçao

Judeo-Caribbean Currents: Music of the Mikvé Israel-Emanuel Synagogue in Curaçao

This booklet accompanies the CD: Judeo-Caribbean Currents: Music…

Music in Antiquity - The Near East and the Mediterranean

Yuval - Studies of the Jewish Music Research Center, vol. 8 - Music in Antiquity - The Near East and the Mediterranean

Music was one component of the cultural continuum that developed in…